CHAPTER IV. 



The Dead Man's Fingers — Appearance when contracted — when 

 expanded — Beauty of the flower-like Polypes — ^Structure — 

 Spiculee — The Polypidom — Zoophytes and Crustacea upon 

 Tangle — Small Nudibranchs and their Spawn — The Angled 

 Laomedea — Its medusiform Young — Appearance, Manners 

 and Structure of the Embryo — Escape of one from the Yesicle 

 — Regular Arrangement of the Zoophytes — The Rosy Ane- 

 mone — Its Locality — Description — Habits — Structure — The 

 Snowy-disked Anemone — Peculiarities of its locality — De- 

 scription — The Snake-locked Anemone — Description — Fare- 

 well to South Devon, 



ALCYONIUM DIGITATUM. 



At low water, after an unsuccessful hour spent in 

 turning stones, I went to the end of the rocks at Petit 

 Tor, and by leaping over an inlet through which the 

 tide was pouring in and out, reached a mass of rock 

 covered with Fitci and Laminarice. Here, growing on 

 the side of a deep hole under water, illuminated by 

 light proceeding from the far end of the cavernous 

 passage, I had for the first time the pleasure of seeing 

 Alcyonium digitatum. It was composed of two cy- 

 lindrical lobes rounded at the ends, their form sug- 

 gesting both of the names vulgarly applied to this 

 Zoophyte, of Dead-man's-fingers and Cows' paps, or 

 the more elegant appellation, assigned to it by Sir 

 John Dalyell, of Mermaid's Glove. By lying down 

 and creeping beneath a ledge of rock, and thrusting my 



